Urban Animals: Season 2: Ep. 1

Urban Animals is a human-interest series about non-humans, and the people who love them. In this episode, we visit retailer Petco in Manhattan’s Union Square for 'Bunnies in Wonderland,' an adoption event that endeavors to find placement for the city’s homeless rabbits, who make excellent apartment pets and who rank just behind cats and dogs on the list of urban animals that populate local shelters. Then, we’ll travel to several locations in the NY/metro area where flocks of displaced parrots have taken up residence and have established local colonies. From Brooklyn to Queens to upper Manhattan, to the palisades of New Jersey, Quaker parrots, aka Monk Parakeets, have built massive nests, raised families, and joined the populations of indigenous birds in city parks and backyards. We’ll see the parrots in their urban digs, learn how they likely got here, and how they manage to survive in a region that is so far from their native South American home. We’ll also visit the “Meow Parlor,” New York’s very first Cat Café.



Urban Animals is a human-interest series about non-humans, and the people who love them. In this episode, we visit retailer Petco in Manhattan’s Union Square for 'Bunnies in Wonderland,' an adoption event that endeavors to find placement for the city’s homeless rabbits, who make excellent apartment pets and who rank just behind cats and dogs on the list of urban animals that populate local shelters. Then, we’ll travel to several locations in the NY/metro area where flocks of displaced parrots have taken up residence and have established local colonies. From Brooklyn to Queens to upper Manhattan, to the palisades of New Jersey, Quaker parrots, aka Monk Parakeets, have built massive nests, raised families, and joined the populations of indigenous birds in city parks and backyards. We’ll see the parrots in their urban digs, learn how they likely got here, and how they manage to survive in a region that is so far from their native South American home. We’ll also visit the “Meow Parlor,” New York’s very first Cat Café.